Mount Etna's ongoing volcanic activity disrupts summer travel
Europe • Aug 14, 2026, 12:55 AM
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Ash spewing from Sicily's Mount Etna has closed the Italian island’s largest airport for the fifth consecutive day, stranding hundreds of summer holiday travellers during the busiest travel week of the year. Catania’s airport will remain closed until early August 15. While Etna, Europe's largest active volcano, often disrupts airport operations, this marks the longest emergency since 2002.
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France to deliver interceptor missiles to Ukraine after fresh wave of Russian strikes
Europe • 1:26 PM
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This Saturday saw a continued exchange of fire between Kyiv and Moscow. French President Emmanuel Macron announced Paris would deliver new interceptor missiles to Ukraine, whose air defences are running short after the latest round of deadly Russian atta
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Antwerp's 'human zoo': Belgium confronts shame of colonial past
Europe • 11:05 AM
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In 1894, when the Belgian city of Antwerp was hosting a World's Fair, more than a hundred Congolese people were forcibly brought to the city to be exhibited in the Congo Pavilion. In this "human zoo", seven Congolese men ultimately died of disease. Today
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Children among wounded in Zelensky's hometown, struck by Russian drones
Europe • 9:38 AM
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Early this Saturday, Russian strikes killed at least two people in Ukraine. In Zaporizhzhia, a drone killed a man and wounded four, according to officials, while a warehouse was on fire in Kyiv. It comes after a Russian bombing killed at least 20 people
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Russian strikes Zelensky's hometown in Ukraine, killing 15 people, wounding 130
Europe • 9:08 AM
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Russian drones struck a shopping centre in the city of Kryvyi Rih in central Ukraine this Friday. 14 people were killed. Authorities reported that children were among the scores of people injured in the strikes, which targeted President Volodymyr Zelensk
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Macron says France will deliver interceptor missiles to Ukraine after new Russian strikes
Europe • 6:02 AM
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French President Emmanuel Macron said Saturday that Paris would deliver new interceptor missiles to Ukraine after Russian strikes reportedly killed four people, including two children. The strikes followed a series of Russian attacks that killed at least
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